“Rationality” and “Reason” do not even have the same
meanings in Islam that Westerners subscribe to.

The
bases of Shariah are four: two are revelatory, coming from Allah, and
include the two core sources, the Qur’ān, Islam’s holy book, and the Sunnah
(the practice and teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (s)); and two are based in
rational endeavor, consensus (ijma)
and analogical juristic reasoning (qiyās).

The
distinguishing characteristic of logic (the
art of non-contradictory identification) indicates the nature of the actions
(actions of consciousness required to achieve a correct identification) and
their goal (knowledge…..

“It’s
logical, but logic has nothing to do with reality.” Logic is the art or skill of non-contradictory identification.
Logic has a single law, the Law of Identity, and its various corollaries. If
logic has nothing to do with reality, it means that the Law of Identity is
inapplicable to reality. If so, then: a.) things are not what they are; b.)
things can be and not be at the same time, in the same respect, i.e., reality
is made up of contradictions. If so, by what means did anyone discover it? By
illogical means…..

Reason is man’s only means of grasping
reality and of acquiring knowledge—and, therefore, the rejection of reason
means that men should act regardless of and/or in contradiction to the facts of
reality.

The
method which
reason employs in this process is logic—and
logic is the art of non-contradictory
identification.

Sharia and Islam, as a “unified” package of ethics,
is based, primarily, on those three old hoary diseases of man’s existence:
superstition (the purported existence of a supreme being, in this case, Allah),
consensus (so many people believe in Allah, he must exist, beginning with Mohammad), and, emotions or feelings.
The latter are not tools of cognition; they are responses to what one observes,
that is, when one employs one’s cognitive faculties.

Muslims are not bothered an iota that their “ideal
man” is a rapist, a killer, a savage thug. Being a savage thug is a means to an
end for the average jihadist: a
guarantee of Paradise if he has died in the act of slaughtering the infidel (that is, an individual or group
that has “left” the Islamic faith, because Islamic theology proclaims that all
men are born Muslim and are obliged to maintain fidelity to Islam).

Sharia Law is blatantly anti-human. It does not exist
to further human happiness. It exists to impose guilt and punishment upon the
living for living. And for having values not in compliance with Islam’s Sharia.
For disobeying Allah’s will. Contradictions are rife in the Koran,
the Sunnah, and the Hadith. But their
presence in those documents has not stopped Islam’s religious authorities from
holding them up as things to be revered, acknowledged, and adhered to as moral
diktats under pain of death if they are not obeyed. If Allah wishes to water
the mountain tops, then he will command water to run uphill.

No intelligent government should impair the
right of free speech to placate people who falsely claim they are victims when
often they are, in fact, aggressors.

To the 57 members of the Organization of
Islamic Cooperation [now Conference], however, all human rights must first be
based on Islamic religious law, Sharia: whatever is inside Sharia is a human right,
whatever is outside Sharia is not a human right. [Emphasis mine.]

The rape of non-Muslim women is sanctioned by the Koran. It is seen by Muslims as a form
of conquest. In practical terms, German and Swedish women are captives of
Muslim “migrants” and can rape non-Muslim women with relative impunity (thanks
to the dhimmified judicial systems of those countries) . The “legend” of
Mohammad is that he raped captive women (especially if they were Jewish) as a
matter of “right.” His followers, to this century, emulate the practice. Thus
the spiraling rape statistics in Germany and Sweden, whose governments have,
out of altruistic duty, allowed those countries to be swamped beyond control
with savages whose sustenance is also subsidized by the subjected populations. ISIS
proclaims that if a captive and sex slave Yazidi
woman is raped by an ISIS fighter, she automatically becomes a Muslim.

Mā
malakat aymānukum ("what your right hands possess", Arabic:
ما ملكت أيمانکم‎‎) is a
reference in the Qur'an to slaves. The phrase occurs several times, and has
been variously translated by Western and Islamic scholars to mean the same
thing: captive women can be raped according to Sharia.

Surah
Al-Muminun
(23:6) and Surah Al-Maarij (70:30) both, in identical wording, draw a
distinction between spouses and "those whom one's right hands
possess" (female slaves), saying (literally, "their spouses or what
their right hands possess"), while clarifying that sexual intercourse with
either is permissible. The purchase of female slaves for sex was lawful from
the perspective of Islamic law, and this was the most common motive for the
purchase of slaves throughout Islamic history

Tavakoli explicates Islam:

Fundamentalists
view Muhammad as the perfect man. Yet Muhammad led violent followers who raped,
enslaved war captives, and murdered unbelievers as part of Islam's program to
expand. Today that behavior is emulated by Islamic terrorists in Iraq, Syria,
Sudan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Mauritania, Nigeria, to name just a few.

Muhammad
had several wives, including a slave given to him as a gift. When he was in his
fifties, he asked for a friend's six-year-old daughter and consummated the
so-called marriage when the child was nine. Although Muhammad criticized
corrupt customs of his Arab contemporaries, he had sex with a girl who was too
young to be capable of consent; in the West we call this statutory rape. (Sahih
Bukhari volume 5, book 58, number 234)

Referring
to Muhammad's life, fundamentalists allow forced marriages of female children in countries
including Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, some Gulf States, and Iran.

If
fundamentalist Muslim leaders do not understand how flawed this ideology
appears to the West, their incomprehension may spring from a fundamentally
different view of human rights: To the West, these values are embodied in the
Enlightenment -- such as individual freedoms, freedom of thought, disinterested
enquiry -- and in the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights – that all people, regardless of race religion
or gender, have the right to life, liberty personal security, and freedom from
slavery torture, and degrading treatment.

It is those Enlightenment
values the Muslim Brotherhood works to denigrate and eradicate in its “civilizational”
war against the West. It has allies in dhimmi
Western governments in control of a nation’s educational establishment. In the
U.S., Britain, Germany, Sweden and other countries children are indoctrinated
in the “glories” of Islam, forced to perform the Shahada,
prayer, complete with rugs, bowing, and gestures, and to mouth the words that
Allah is the greatest, and that Mohammad is his prophet.

Many Reformist Muslims claim they are being unfairly lumped
into this extremist crew, but if they are claiming a schism, many they often have
not been clear about it….

Reformist Muslims still call themselves Muslims, but there can
never be a Quran 2.0. Every word in the Quran is believed to be the word of
Allah, similar to the Ten Commandments as the direct word of God; no one is
able to say that Allah did not mean what Allah reportedly said.
Interpretations, however do differ and since 1948 have apparently caused the deaths of 11,000,000 Muslims at the hands of other Muslims.

So one can imagine what might be in store for non-Muslims.

Islam cannot be “reformed”
to coexist with Western society. What divides “fundamentalist” Muslims from the
Reformist Muslims is an imaginary rainbow, because Islam cannot be tampered
with to make it more amenable to civilized society, not without earning the
Reformists death fatwas.

Islam, moreover, seems to have been has been set up to
spread it both by violence, "hard
jihad," and "soft jihad. " Hard jihad includes terrorism, murder
and attempted murder. Soft jihad includes rewriting history as with the UNESCO
vote claiming that ancient Biblical monuments such as Rachel's Tomb or the Cave
of the Patriarchs are Islamic, when historically Islam did not even exist until
the seventh century; migration to widen Islam (hijrah), as we are seeing
now in Europe and Turkish threats to flood Germany with migrants; cultural
penetration such as promoting Islam in school textbooks or tailoring curricula
for "political correctness"; political and educational
infiltration, as well as intimidation (soft jihad with the threat of hard jihad
just underneath it).

More regrettable is that these are so often done, as at
UNESCO, with the help and complicity of the West.

Both hard and soft jihad are how Islam historically has
been able to overrun Persia, Turkey, Greece, Southern Spain, Portugal, all of
North Africa, and all of Eastern Europe. It is up to us not to let this be done
to us again.

Islam has no “extremist” forms.
One must ask oneself, from what point in its ideology and practice does it
reach an “extremist” apogee? Find a “moderate” form of Islam.You can’t. Islam is radical in every sense of
that term. Its origin was brutal and savage and it would cease to be Islam if
its advocates surrendered the ambition to make it dominant and abandoned the
use of force. There are no “moderate” fundamentalists. Reformist Muslims want
to add the frosting and icing of Western civilized societies to Islam to make
it palatable to infidel and Muslim alike. But Islam is Islam.

Given the bloody record of Islam
over 14 centuries, the “War on Terror” cannot be but the “War on Islam.” To think
of the conflict in milder terms is self-delusional and perilous. Islam is nothing if not inhuman. It is a
system for dying, it is a system that glorifies death.

2 comments:

"One must ask oneself, from what point in its ideology and practice does it reach an 'extremist' apogee?" One can liken this to ICBM missile launch. Where does the missile come from? From a silo. That is where it rested until launched. Every drop of fuel causes it to ascend. Similarly, every word in Islamic texts and theology serves as fuel. Islam detonates into jihadist terrorism.

Ed,I agree with you, and don't in any way advocate for any religion. However, I wonder if there was some point in Christian history when one could have made the same arguments.

I'm curious if you are familiar with Dr. Zudee Jasser, a "moderate muslim" who has been vocal in his opposition to Islamic terrorists.

The problem is, how do we get them(masses of muslims) from Islamic to secular? Of is it just a matter of the West containing them and not giving any quarter when it comes to dropping the hammer on any form of terrorism? If we pointed a nuke right at Mecca and Tehran and said, "control your minions, or else," would that be effective?

Edward Cline, American Novelist

Edward Cline was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1946. After graduating from high school (in which he learned nothing of value) and a stint in the Air Force, he pursued his ambition to become a novelist. His first detective novel, First Prize, was published in 1988 by Mysterious Press/Warner Books, and his first suspense novel, Whisper the Guns, was published in 1992 by The Atlantean Press. First Prize was republished in 2009 by Perfect Crime. The Sparrowhawk series of novels set in England and Virginia in the pre-Revolutionary period has garnered critical acclaim (but not yet from the literary establishment) and universal appreciation from the reading public, including parents, teachers, students, scholars, and adult readers who believe that American history has been abandoned or is misrepresented by a government-dominated educational establishment. He is dedicated to Objectivism, Ayn Rand's philosophy of reason in all matters.